Jeremy JohnsonHigher Learning For Success

Picture this: you sit down at your computer. And the first thing you do is check your email, your Twitter, your Facebook, your website statistics, your favorite news site, your favorite sports site, and finally, your bank account. Phew. Then you repeat this cycle because by the time it ends, it’s been an hour since you checked your email!

Find out some of the things which ‘distract’ me

The just check this mentality

I want to know what’s going on. I don’t want to miss anything. The problem I have is that I’m so focused on not missing anything that I am missing out on other important things – like actually producing something of value for people to use. I’ve found an over-use of checking social networking and stat tracking websites to be a time sink for me.

My goal is to ONLY once a day check social networking sites and stat tracking websites. It’s so easy to just click all these sites and see what is going on. It’s like taking a TV remote and going channel surfing. Before you know it, an hour has passed and all you did was click around and randomly read things. Is social networking the new channel surfing? Hopefully not :)

Some time sinks to watch out for

• GMAIL – or any other email website
• Twitter, Facebook – or any other social networking website
• Adsense – or any money tracking website
• Analytics – or any other stat tracking website
• ESPN – or any sports website
• CNN – or any news website
• Feedburner – or any newsletter/email list website

So be careful! By the time you reach the end of this list, you’ll feel a need to start from the top of it again, creating an endless cycle of destruction :)

My solution – don’t visit any of these sites except for ONE TIME a day, which you designate. Or even try it once a week, but to start with, once a day is reasonable.

My Friends: What other sites eat up your time? What social networking websites take up your time the most? What have you found to work for you in cutting down your ‘surfing’ time?

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Are you married with kids? Are you single with kids? Do you work a job where you come home tired? Are you ever tired? Do you find it hard to get going on projects you want to do? If any of these apply to you, I’m going to show you how to kick yourself in gear in minutes!

You’re kids (if you have them) will get a kick out of the video too!

The above video is there to help get you energized. When you have finished reading what to do here, click it (make sure your volume is WAY up), and then do the things I am about to tell you. Got another video that gets you going? I’d like to hear about it for sure!

Say, “Ok, I’m going to take 5 minutes and get in gear!”

That’s right, just say this phrase to yourself a few times. You are getting in gear. You are excited. You are ready to accomplish great things. You are a leader, someone who makes a difference. You are ready to take action.

Visualize one awesome task you will accomplish

That’s right, just one thing you are going to do. Keep it simple. What is one thing you can focus on right now that you need to do? You just need to focus on it. You will focus on this throughout the entire play length of the video. Do not deviate from it. It is yours and you will do it. What will you visualize?

Start clapping your hands

What, start clapping my hands? You bet – get yourself moving and start clapping your hands. Pretend you are about to run an extremely important race against other runners. Pretend Brad Pitt has his shirt off (if you’re a girl) or if you’re a guy, pretend that you’re about to meet Hillary Clinton (ok that’s random – find someone exciting and pick them). Clap your hands more. You are about to do something amazing.

Play the above video

Get ready to play the video above. Before you do, when the video starts, get ready to dance like it’s 1985 or 1995, I guess I am getting older now, so let’s bump it up 10 years. You don’t have to know how to dance – you will just jump up and down, clap your hands, and scream. You must move and enjoy it! Don’t say, “This is dumb, I don’t wanna.” No! Enjoy it :) You will enjoy yourself through the whole video. Now play the video! When you are done, you should be breathing hard and ready to go to town.

How did this feel? Does it feel good to move around and at the same time visualize what you are going to accomplish? I promise if you do this daily, you will have no trouble being consistent in the goals you are trying to achieve. Let me hear how your dancing went.

Update – a few more videos for you to try